RENI, Guido
(b. 1575, Calvenzano, d. 1642, Bologna)

The Death of Cleopatra

1625-30
Oil on canvas, 124 x 94 cm
Neues Palais, Potsdam

Reni is known to have painted at least three other versions of the Egyptian queen's ecstatic demise. This version, painted c. 1625, was enlarged at top and bottom at a later date.